Word: woolworths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week's ballyhoo contained the customary information that more dogs (2,837) were entered than ever before, items about a singular creature called the Welsh Corgi, news that dachshunds outnumbered all other entries. Newsreaders, however, were flabbergasted at one new note in the ballyhoo. This was the Woolworth Donahue Cheetah. Before the show opened sports pages contained pictures of the cheetah and its trainer, Publisher Eltinge F. Warner of Field & Stream. When the show began, patrons viewed a cinema which showed the cheetah, by this time almost as legendary as a loup-garou, retrieving duck and pheasant...
...cheetahs are used for hunting antelope. Hooded and chained, carried to the field in carts, they are released within 200 yd. of the game, restrained from eating their prey, when they have killed it, by being offered hot blood in a long-handled ladle. On an African hunting jaunt, Woolworth Donahue caught his cheetah when it was three months old, cured it of rickets by lime injections in its spine. By the time the cheetah recovered, it had developed such a fondness for its owner that Woolworth Donahue brought it back to the U. S. When he told his friends...
...Woolworth Co. announced earnings for the year of $32,142,000 against $28,690.000 for 1933. During the year Woolworth had abandoned 16 stores, now operates 1,957 in the U. S. and Canada...
...Lyon. MacKenzie King (now in frail health) and the unofficial opposition now rapidly crystallizing around nominal Conservative Henry Stevens, a onetime Bennett henchman who set himself up as hero of the mob with his Philippic against routine Canadian business practice (TIME, Nov. 5). This included violent denunciation of Canadian Woolworth Stores because they cut wages (later raised) at the same time as did U. S. Woolworth Stores, obeying circular orders from company headquarters in Manhattan's Woolworth Building. This Orator Stevens has turned virtually into Treason to Canada...
...flurry at sailing for the U. S., Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani, Woolworth heiress, missed the boat train from London. The farewell party packed her into an automobile, raced the train to Southampton, rushed her up the gangplank of the Europa. The princess had just turned 22. Last fortnight two princes, one duchess, three barons, 13 counts, one lord, and an even 100 others turned up in Paris to help her celebrate her birthday. For the party, which cost $10,000, her polo-loving husband Prince Alexis had virtuous apologies: "We didn't think it fitting to spend too much...